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Throughout the last decade, there has been a dramatic decline in daily physical activity among individuals which results in numerous severe health issues, including obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and high blood pressure. Pervasive applications that promote health living present a promising approach for the reduction or prevention of these health ailements. Context-awareness plays an important role in the development of these technologies. Context-aware systems can adapt to the changing context in order to better serve their users. In this paper, we propose the Extensible Context Ontology for Persuasive Physical-Activity Applications (ECOPPA), a formal context modeling scheme for applications that promote physical activity.
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Hoda, M., Montaghami, V., Al Osman, H., El Saddik, A. (2018). ECOPPA: Extensible Context Ontology for Persuasive Physical-Activity Applications. In: Rocha, Á., Guarda, T. (eds) Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (ICITS 2018). ICITS 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 721. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73450-7_30
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